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As a good number, but not all (some of us are White Sox fans) of the traders on the floor at CBOE were starting to think about where they were going to be that evening to watch Game 3 of the World Series, some news broke that shook the equity markets. I don’t need to […]

October 9, 2016, 11:50 pm CT — Regarding the financial market movements Sunday night around and during the second presidential debate, below are some highlights. VIX FUTURES Trading volume for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX®) on Sunday night from 5:00 p.m. through 11:15 p.m. exceeded 2,250 contracts. The chart below shows that the […]

VXST more than doubled as a function of the index being depressed in front of the three-day weekend and then in reaction to Friday’s SPX sell off. As would be expected, the rest of the VXST-VIX-VXV-VXMT curve moved higher as well, but outside of VXST relative to VIX we are still in a state of […]

For the second week in a row the S&P 500 Index related volatility indexes hardly budged. Three out of four were lower with the longest dated, VXMT, up slightly on the week. We’ve ranted and raved in various forums about how VVIX has been holding up despite a lower VIX. It was kind of […]

JUNE 24, 2016 – Prices for certain futures contracts on the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX®) rose more than 60% during the early part of the June 24 trading day, as more updates about the anticipated results of the Brexit referendum were divulged. At around 12:45 am ET on June 24 — (1) the VIX Weekly […]

The S&P 500 was down 0.44% last week which places the index up only 0.65% for the year. Three out of the four S&P 500 focused volatility indexes were also lower last week, despite the drop in the S&P 500. I find the longer end of the curve holding up like it has for most […]

Three out of the four S&P 500 based volatility indexes dropped last week with the longer term focused VXMT rising slightly. I went on a data fishing expedition with respect to weeks where VXMT and the S&P 500 rose, but couldn’t find a definitive patters. I even looked at the predictive power going out as […]

On February 29 – March 2 I attended the 32nd Annual CBOE Risk Management Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Bonita Springs, Florida, and I was pleased to view several presentations by excellent speakers, including keynotes by Leo de Bever, PhD, Former CEO, Alberta Investment Management Corp., and by Jim VandeHei, Co-Founder, President, and CEO […]